New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-30
VAR TALK IN PARIS.
| THE NEW XPLOSIvE-BLOWITZ'S IN
LUCKY "BOUNCES."

THE NEW XPLOSIvE-BLOWITZ'S IN
LUCKY "BOUNCES"
tYRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrnuyEI
PARIS January 10.
The experiments with bombs and grenades charged
with melinite" which to come off on January 13
and IA, will be made under the eyes of the War Minis
ter and a few specialists Journalists and foreigners
will be excluded and the art ,rymen chosen to opor
ate will be selected with view to coseness OF mouth
as we'll asiot technical skill. The three chief marks
for the bombs will be fortalices. of which was
built with concrete and stone ut cost OF $4,000,
and is thirteen metres SQUARE 1t Is OF the shape OF
cost of $4 900 apiece and are of concrete and flint
They are shaped like the base OF truncsted cone
soping in rapidly toward the TOP Besides these
built them say will be demolished i'll few moments,
there minor targets.
The explosive force of melinite is hundred times
greater than that of gunpowder and its force OF pene
traton gives it immense advantage for destructive
purposes over dynamite. 1t ia also safe to handle
But it is terrible force to let loose upon the world
The Germans watch closely to what extent II is being
adopted here. daresay they will not be pleased to
learn that 100000 grenades for field pieces Will he
delivered in a few days to the French Ordnance
Department, and that great supply OF "mellnite'
bombs will be forthcoming for siege artillery.
This order shows that the military authorities here
who engaged in preparing plan tor futuro
war with Germany do not contemplate remaining
altogether on the dc fensiye.
We have not heard so much about during the
last week and the craInmcr of ~ de Blowitz about
n treaty between Russia and Germany is taken
for just what il is worth, VIZ, nothing nj all B0wz,
by the by has not lucky IN his inventions OF late
lie shot Colonel Willaume, the Cars aide decamp,
bv the Cars own hand and the Colone without
being at the trouble of rising from the dead writes TO
say that he Ia still alive He also tccgraphed TO his
paper a conversation with NJ. F1ourens, which the
latter has contradicted in the most point blank man.
ner. But the most unfortunate bounce" OF all was
the about the arrival in Paris OF the Bulgarian
delegates. The Times" informed how these
euvoys looked, dressed, and were lodged and
ted. No detail was spared. But unfortunately
the report which must have been prated from an
account OF their proceedings at Vienna Berlin had
so far as Paris went, basis OF truth. They were
graphed to The Times" their whereabouts here and
tho other particulars have mentioned. But they
never came because the line Of railway by which
they were travelling hither blocked up with slow,
and as they heard at Avrcourt, In Lorraine, where
they were obliged to halt, that Lord Randolph
Battenberg had LEFT Windsor to return TO Darmstsdt
they agreed to their steps and instead Ga com
ing Oh TO Paris 60 to London by way OF Belgium,
and meet their ex-ruler the road and hear from his
own lps how the Churchill resignation would AFFECT
their mission No other paper in London would
which is pcthoric IRON prosperity and has got into
state OF fatty degeneration.
"The Pall Mall Gazette" swallowed the Blowitz
q bounces" with eagerness and gluttony, and now
helps their author out OF tho story about the treaty by
saving that il il is in form IL is true in fact
There is TO truth at all in it, Germany IA bound by
her situation to be the enemy OF Russia. perhaps in
greater degree than OF France But Tor the present
Prince Bismarck is doing what he can TO prevent
what may term job alliance between the Gar and
NJ. Grevy or TO keep BOTH without any SPECIFIC
alliance from attacking Germany at the same time